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April Fools Day or Day of Jokes is celebrated each April 1st in the United States. From mass media to politicians, even large corporations play pranks to the public. This celebration would be equivalent to the “Día de los Inocentes,” celebrated by the Latin world...

They were built for thousands of years, when there were no bulldozers and cranes. But are still marveling at the world – and science – for the enormous effort and ingenuity employed in its construction. According to experts at physics of the Foundation for Fundamental...

A group of U.S. scientists cloned insulin-producing cells through the DNA of a diabetic woman, which could be a potential breakthrough in the treatment of type 1 diabetes, according to the website of the journal Nature. The process was based on the same used for animal cloning,...

Young researchers from the center of research for biotechnology of Ecuador (CIBE), graduates of the ­Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (Espol) and through an agreement with the Ecuadorian Antarctic Institute (NAIS) traveled to Antarctica in search of land and water samples...

United States scientists discovered that sleeping helps the brain process strong emotional experiences associated with traumatic memories. Investigators from the California University in Berkeley found out that the chemicals that produce stress “turn off” during sleeping hours....

A team of researchers from the Washington University (USA) began to use a 3D printer that can create bones with a material very similar to the bone tissue. According to scientists it could help repair injuries. Currently this kind of printers have been used to create prosthetics....

NASA’s Spitzer telescope detected a comet shower in a system similar to what would have been the Solar System, several million years ago, during the ‘late heavy bombardment’, in which water and other vital elements to create life came to Earth. Spitzer has detected a...

The NASA in collaboration with Japan published an improved version of the topographic map of Earth. This detailed work was made with the instruments onboard of the North American satellite Terra. The map was published for the first time in 2009, now it has over one million of...